Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-08
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Council this evening in regular session.
A SoUTHSIpEg gentleman lost \ five hun
died dollar horse by death, yesterday.
Two deeds of trust were admitted to
record yesterday.
The doors of tine Centre Market cannot
be closed, owing to moisture swelling the
woodwork.
THE penitentiary investigating commit
tee will commence its sessions at Mouhds-
vile to-day.
SAM BARHI.EY and Jack GlaSscOek, the
weIl-known base hall players, Joined the
EIks Sunday.
WoRKNES were engaged yesterday In
setting ND the new lock boxes, recently
ordered for the postofiee-
The following letters were unclaimed at
the postofiee. last evening: Miss Mamie
Hallant, Louis Hirsh, E HySell-
AT the Hospital, Sunday, Henry Best
had one of his limbs a%mputated BY DIR.
Baird. The patent Was suffering from a
caneer.
AMEErNG of the General Committee Of
the Society of the Army of West Virginia,
will he held some time this week 10 set
the wheels in motion
The Ohio River Railroad il now clear of
slips below Parkersburg, and the train
which leaves the city at : this morning
will run through TO PIT. Pleasant
J. X. GATES, the man charged before
Justice Phillips with having robbed Owen
McGraw, was discharged from custody
yesterday, he having proved a satisfactory
abb.
4 FIRE at Coon Island, Friday night,
destroyed the general merchandise estab-
lishment OF Joseph Graves 4 Co. The loss
IS several thousands of dollars: partly in
sured.
THERE is . movement among the bar
bers to close their shops OF Sunday here
after. OF the thirty-siN shops in town
thirty two have signed an agreement To
that effect.
IT was rumOred on the streets last night
that the we'll known character Rag
| Mary had been found dead in bed some
where in the East End. Enquiry failed
TO snhstantiate the story.
Mrs. ZIEGENFELDER will occupy the
old REGISTER building, corner of Market
street and Alley 9, after April l. The
building is TO be remodeled and improved
and especially adapted for ice cream par
lorS.
4 GOOD sized audience greeted Miss
Fannie MOuntcastle and her company at
the Grand Opera House last evening.
Kathleen M~ayOurneen" was the piece
produced. A change Of programme will
be made this evening.
J. W. HOLIDAY Posi-, G. \. l., assist
ell By the Ladies' Relief Corps, will give
a Camp Fire and Bean Bake. on the even
ing of Washington'S Birthday, and those
! who attend may expect a very nice time.
II will be given for the purpose OF estab-
fishing a relief fund for sick and disabled
soldiers.
JAMES PENNY WAS run in by Officer
West, yesterday afternoon, Tor diSorderly
conduct on Market street. James APP
preached 4 German and asked for a light.
The Germans cigar WIS out, and he told
Penny he had no light, when the latter
raised his good right arm and Slugged the
German in the face
A FEW days ago a South Side citizen left
his wife and went over To Delaware, o.,
taking with him another The
police were advised of the fact, and the
Delaware authorities being communicated
with. the South Slider and his companion
were arrested and given sixty and thirty
days in Jail, respective.
THERE were eight cases before His
Honor yesterday morning. John Martin,
drunk. got a dollar. Mary Ellen Hughes,
Tor keeping a house OF i'll fame, got S20
and costs, and George Garden, Lizzie
Flowers, A. J. Hastings Laura Rose, and
John Grimes, inmates, got s. aud costs
each. Rebe,ci Roach. drunk. dollar.
An infant sou Of John NOlte. of the Sixth
ward, while playing about the tOuSe, yes
terday. got a shoe bnttOner fastened be
meath its tongue, and in its efforts 10 cN-
tricate the buttOner, tore a terrible cash
in the member, from which the blood
poured in = stream and before y doctor ar
! rived the little fellow was mach weakened
bv the loss OF blOad. -